This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
we are the high street service trays / coming to take you away / pasadena 1968 / with speed on your breakfast plate / aunt cancer calls them happy pills / they keep her calm and cool until he leaves / the moccasin skin obsession leather thigh / white tennis skirt so high / the eyes of mine are new and kind / but the hair's not grey, it's white / and grandfather's an ascot noose / can't tie the tassels on his shoes / leave me / these are the red-eyed politics / the cocktail revisionists / war room rules: no wives or kids / here men sing the boy in them / the hedge casts heroes late across our lawn / the valley hunt militiamen, all gone / thought we had the lock in '54 / now the maid owns the house next door / and what's more / swims in the pool she used to clean / our new king looks like a queen / leave me / oh god stop tearing off the roof / of my experimental bathroom / it's the only thing that's halfway mine / and not for your prying and lying eyes / the empire's melting like ice cream / on the altar of the sun / this skin we've stretched for centuries / it's faded, it's fraying, it's meaningless to me
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no doubt, great band and great song
dude, he's talking about pasadena. east sieede!
actually, the lead singer's parents live in pasadena, ca. my brother's friend lives next door to them.
thats awesome eric, you should try to meet him, id do anything to meet good ol Blake. hes the best.
I think this song is about Pasedena, and how fucked up living there was for Blake. I could be wrong, but when I hear it I can really visualize what he is talking about.
it to be about the changes in America during Blake's live
edit: it is about the changes in America during Blake's live
"swims in the pool she used to clean"--love that part.
Definitely about change.
This is a song about the immigrant influx and social changes in Pasadena in the 60s. The supposedly "upstanding" members of the community are threatened by this change:
"Thought we had the lock in '54 / now the maid owns the house next door / and what's more / swims in the pool she used to clean / our new king looks like a queen."